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James Astill

@JamesMAstill

Deputy director at @IMFNews, working on comms, strategy, climate. Formerly at @TheEconomist in DC, Delhi, Nairobi, elsewhere. Writer on India and cricket

[email protected] Katılım Ekim 2014
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James Astill@JamesMAstill·
Some personal news. After two wonderful decades at @TheEconomist, I am off to help run external relations at the IMF. I am grateful for many wonderful friends and experiences in journalism - and excited to be joining one of the last bastions of global problem-solving. @IMFNews
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richard bacon@richardpbacon·
He was good at this stuff.
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Rory Stewart@RoryStewartUK·
A good corrective to the over optimistic view that extreme poverty will somehow vanish by itself because “everything is better than we think”…430 m live in extreme poverty in Africa today compared to 170m in 1980
Jostein Hauge@haugejostein

Your reminder that the global South is *not* catching up with the global North. In fact, with the exception of China, the income gap between the South and the North keeps growing.

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IMF@IMFNews·
Our #COP29 event on the long-term role of the Bretton Woods Institutions in climate action focused on the need for system-wide change, a climate-centric updating of economic models, and the power of public-private collaboration. Watch the full video here: youtube.com/watch?v=g9rPjM…
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James Astill@JamesMAstill·
We've all seen enough
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Nate Silver
Nate Silver@NateSilver538·
It is incredibly gutsy to release this poll. It won't put Harris ahead in our forecast because there was also another Iowa poll out today that was good for Trump. But wouldn't want to play poker against Ann Selzer.
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Michael Liebreich - @MLiebreich.bsky.social@MLiebreich·
New from IEA: "A single journey by a large container ship filled with solar PV modules can provide the means to generate the same amount of electricity as the natural gas from more than 50 large LNG tankers or the coal from more than 100 large bulk ships." iea.org/reports/energy…
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David Fickling
David Fickling@davidfickling·
How did the US invent solar power and dominate it for 60 years, before giving it up to China over the past decade? The answer is, IMO, quite different to the stories we have told ourselves in recent years. And it has important lessons for the future.🧵 bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-…
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James Astill@JamesMAstill·
Britain's last remaining coal-fired power station closes today. The last British coal mine closed 9 years ago. Here's an old column of mine on the last gasp of an industry that changed the world. economist.com/britain/2015/0…
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“The most practically useful guide to politics I have ever read” - George Osborne likes Tony Blair’s new book on.ft.com/3MxRAgS
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Bloomberg Green@climate·
The US agrees to help build Ghana’s first small modular reactor project in a push to promote nuclear technology for African countries trib.al/ApXq53O
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Daniel Brigham@dan_brigham·
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Very sorry to hear of Martin Indyk’s death. He was a fierce believer in Middle East peace, fiercely critical of all sides preventing it; also a very nice man.
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